Re: Sybase(via Open Client) to Oracle migration

In article <4m2b9g$5jv_at_ibridge.iohk.com>, Jay Walters <jwalters> writes:
|> The ORACLE equivalent of the ctlib portion of Open Client is
|> OCI. The ORACLE equivalent of the netlib portion of open
|> client is SQL*Net.
|>
|> IMHO, OCI is much simpler. Whether that makes you happy is
|> another story. They've just recently introduced async
|> capabilities and don't yet have any thread-safe version.
|> That is supposed to come real soon.
|>

OCI is thread safe in version 7.3.2, which is production now on several platforms. The Pro*C version which ships with 7.3.2 (2.2.2) is also thread-safe. The async (non-blocking) calls were introduced with OCI 7.2.

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